All Rise: Court Dance
Choreographed by Dawn Lane
Lighting Design
Taken from the choreographers note "All Rise: Court Dance integrates a group of dancers who are innately and purely honest. Traits that are the bedrock of our country's judicial model; One that claims to be fair, just and based in truths, but one that I believe has strayed. "
This dance went through many different traits that the choreographer, Dawn Lane, was witness too seeing and taking part of in the courtroom. She wanted to show, in a somewhat humorous way, some of the faults that are behind the judicial system that we know of. Even though she had come face to face with moments that were in no way funny, she wanted to shed some light on some quite serious situations for the audience to leave knowing that what they had just seen was in fact something that was happening in every day America.
I wanted to support the story that she was telling. In a world that was mostly black and white in the costuming and set pieces, I chose to have the lighting do the exact opposite. I love to work with a lot of saturation and this is one dance piece in which I was able to mold the dancers in different colors that I chose for the great contrast but also in being complimentary.
This dance went through many different traits that the choreographer, Dawn Lane, was witness too seeing and taking part of in the courtroom. She wanted to show, in a somewhat humorous way, some of the faults that are behind the judicial system that we know of. Even though she had come face to face with moments that were in no way funny, she wanted to shed some light on some quite serious situations for the audience to leave knowing that what they had just seen was in fact something that was happening in every day America.
I wanted to support the story that she was telling. In a world that was mostly black and white in the costuming and set pieces, I chose to have the lighting do the exact opposite. I love to work with a lot of saturation and this is one dance piece in which I was able to mold the dancers in different colors that I chose for the great contrast but also in being complimentary.
Photos courtesy of Tina Lane
